All posts tagged Viral Videos

YouTube released its list of the most popular videos of 2013, which features clips from numerous categories including music, sports and advertising.

From a spoof of Miley Cyrus to Jean-Claude Van Damme doing a split between moving trucks, the following list will lead you to say, “Hey — I remember that one.” To promote the list, YouTube has issued “YouTube Rewind,” an original video that features YouTube stars and other celebrities, and recalls memorable moments of the year. Read More »

A video called “No Woman, No Drive,” a satire about Saudi Arabia’s ban on women driving, has become a viral hit for comedian Hisham Fageeh. Set to the tune of the Bob Marley classic “No Woman, No Cry,” the song’s lyrics appear to make connections between the ban and Saudi culture.

Women should ride only in the back seat of a car in part to keep their “ovaries all safe and well so you can make lots and lots of babies,” the song says. So far the video has logged more than 3.5 million views on YouTube. Read More »

The video for “Everything Changes” by Eytan and The Embassy serves as a mini-history of rock and pop in which Eytan Oren, the singer and piano player of the band, changes costumes 18 times in four minutes. From John Lennon to Lady Gaga, Oren chose artists that he and the band love.

The video has been dubbed the record-setter for “most costume changes in an unedited music video” by Recordsetter.com, an alternative to Guinness World Records in which the founders believe “everyone can be the world’s best at something.” Oren became friendly with the founders and “quickly fell in love” with the website. “It occurred to me that the video might have broken a record,” Oren said. Read More »

Walter C. May’s girlfriend recently moved from LA to North Carolina to attend business school at Duke. To show how much he missed her, May roped his roommates — who happen to make up a band called “The Daylights — into making a viral video for her, emphasis on the viral. May doesn’t want to send the video directly to his gf; he wants her to find it via the interwebs, so he’s been tweeting up the vid’s YouTube link (even Katy Perry has joined in the fun), in hopes that said girlfriend will randomly see his work. Since being posted on Nov. 28, the video has been climbing in viewcounts and been written about on numerousblogs. Check out the video after the jump. Read More »

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